Bloody Britain

Bone crushing hags in the Lake District... Cursed woods in sleepy Sussex... Forbidden books at Oxford University... Mutant Londoners in a bleak future metropolis...

Fourteen novelettes and short stories, including four previously unpublished tales. With an introduction by Robert Shearman and interior illustrations by Reggie Oliver. Cover art by Paul Mudie.​

From writer and filmmaker Anna Taborska, author of For Those Who Dream Monsters. Anna is a British filmmaker and horror author. She has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and an award-winning TV drama. She has also worked on twenty other films, with actors such as Rutger Hauer, Scott Wilson, Noah Taylor and Jenny Agutter, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution and World War Two behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West.

Anna's short stories have appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best New Writing 2011, The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four, Best British Horror 2014, Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 1 and Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror.

Anna's debut short story collection, For Those who Dream Monsters, published by Mortbury Press in 2013, won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. Anna's other books include Shadowcats - a micro-collection of cat stories published by Black Shuck Books in June 2019.

You can watch clips from Anna's films and check her full biography at Anna Taborska Horror:

About the Author
Taborska, Anna: - "Anna Taborska's short stories have appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best New Writing 2011, The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four, Best British Horror 2014, Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 1 and Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror. She has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and an award-winning TV drama. She has also worked on twenty other films, with actors such as Rutger Hauer, Scott Wilson, Noah Taylor and Jenny Agutter, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution and World War Two behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West."Oliver, Reggie: - Reggie Oliver is a short story writer and illustrator. Collections include, The Ballet of Dr Caligari & Madder Mysteries, Holidays from Hell, Mrs Midnight and Other Stories and The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler & Other Strange Stories.Shearman, Robert: - Robert Shearman has worked as writer for television, radio and the stage, including scripts for Dr. Who. His first collection of short stories, called Tiny Deaths, was published by Comma Press in 2007. The collection won the World Fantasy Award for best collection, and was also shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. One of the stories from it was selected by the National Library Board of Singapore as part of the annual Read! Singapore campaign. His interactive short story project for BBC7, 'The Chain Gang', won him a Sony Award, and he provided a second series for them late in 2009 to promote drama writing for radio, which also won a Sony Award.